HGTV is running a neat contest where they're promising to do a little "neighborhood revitalization" of a depressed area somewhere in the country. You can vote here. I picked DC, naturally.
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Neighborhood Fix-Up
14 Dec 2007 01:24 pm
Comments (10)
Manhasset/Great Neck? Really?
Thanks for the heads-up. As a fellow transplanted DC-er I also voted for Anacostia--if I can't bring myself to cheer for the Redskins, the least I can do is vote in this thing.
Remember DC's poorer neighbor to the North, Baltimore.
Vote and vote often for Charm City!
Wtf, Matt... is your "The Wire" loyalty really that shallow?
I work for Rebuilding Together (the non-profit that's working with HGTV for this project) in New Orleans which was, as mentioned, "preselected" for this competition. Specifically we're working in the Broadmoor neighborhood, which post-Katrina was under consideration to become designated a "green space" due to its low elevation (as outlined in this Salon piece http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/02/24/broadmoor/index_np.html).
Just to give anyone interested an idea of where the neighborhood is now-- the community recently received a $2 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation to rebuild their local library as part of the "education corridor" they plan to build involving a local auditorium from the local Catholic church, the library/community center, and the local elementary school. The school itself was, through community petitioning, able to be recently selected as one of 5 throughout the city to be "fast tracked" for recovery as a result of the hard work of its local group (the Broadmoor Improvement Association).
Anyway, I thought I'd just pass that along since even though it's easy to despair about what's going on in the world and especially what happened (and continues to happen) in New Orleans there is, in spite of it all, a lot of good going on. And it's happening because a lot of good people are working hard to make their lives and their communities a better place.
Sounds like a great program. Both Anacostia and the Pen Lucy area of Baltimore would derive a great deal of benefit from a spruce up.
I'd also support Queer Eye for Charm City if anyone wants to give it a go. John Waters would need to be involved, naturally.
Neighborhood fix up in D.C.?
They planning on nuking the city?
That's what it would take.
WTFBBQ? No Detroit or Milwaukee or Chicago? St. Paul is the representative for the Midwest?
I voted for SF, I may be moving there in a few years. In hindsight probably should not have. ++ neighborhoods == ++ house prices.
going to have to go with minderbender on this one. The Wire also swayed my vote for Baltimore.
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Heads in the Sand
I was all set to be outraged that you didn't vote for New Orleans, but I see HGTV "preselected" it as a winner. Good for them.
I voted for Curtis Park in Denver.
Posted by Colorado Luis | December 14, 2007 1:41 PM